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PATENT oiuuclaz.

\ I IRWIN RO'PP, OF NEW BEDFORD, PENNSYLVANIA.

PLAYING CARDS.

Application filed August 9, 1924. Serial No. 731,155.

To all whom z't may concern:

Be it known that I, IRWIN Boer, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Bedford, in the county of Lawrence and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Playing Cards, of which the following is a specification. I

In the accompanying drawing there is shown one of the State cards, the aeroplane card and the steamship card.

This game consists of fifty (50) cards. Each of forty-eight (48) of these cards has printed on its face, the map of one of the forty-eight Stat-es of the United States. In addition to the map, it has the letter A and a number which corresponds to the rank of that State in land area, the State with the smallest area having the number one 1) and the State with the largest area, the number forty-eight (48).

In addition to the map, letter, and number described, each card also has the letter P and a number which corresponds to the rank of that State in population, ac cording to the last ofiicial census of the United States, the State with the smallest population having the number one (1) and the State wit-h the largest population the number forty-eight (48).

Que (1) card has printed on its face picture of an aeroplane.

()ne (1) card hasprinted on its face the picture or" an ocean steamer.

A number of games may be played with these cards, one of which is as follows:

Seven cards are dealt to each player. The player to the left of the dealer decides whether play is to be for area or population. The next player. orders either play or discard.

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If play is ordered, each player makes a ourney of the cards he holds, the one with the greatest number of points winning the trick.

In making a journey, only adjoining States can be used. Example: Iowa,

Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio. The ocean steamer may be used to join two States bordering on the ocean. Example: Idaho, Washington,SteamerVirginia, Tennessee. aeroplane may be used to join any two States. Example: New YorkAeroplaneMissourl.

If discard is ordered, each player, be-

ginning with the one who orders, may distogether with numbers representing the inverse of the rank of each State in area and population, and two cards having pictures of an ocean steamer and an aeroplane.

IRWIN ROPP. lVitnesses ANNA ZEDAKER, C. L. ZEDAKER.

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